Hi zoli,
Your posts include:
Thats good - I hope that extends to supporting policies that reduce our carbon footprint and supporting transition to energy production that is not based on fossil fuels.
I'm just not convinced that the sign speaks the truth. I believe that my children and their children and the children of all future generations, until Jesus returns, will, as far as the major cause of a generation's death, be old age.
There really isn't any verifiable proof that this melting of polar ice, is anything more than the natural processes of our enduring earth. There are a number of reasons given for the changing ozone, but none are particularly definitive in proclaiming why this part of earth's surrounding stratosphere acts as it does. Some more recent findings claim that the 'hole' in the ozone is smaller now than it has been in the past. What if it's supposed to act as it does?
Some people make the claim that forest fires are a good thing for a healthy forest. It cleans up the forest floor and allows for new and often healthier growth. Here's a quote from Sciencemag.org:
They are nature's way of clearing out the dead litter on forest floors. This allows important nutrients to return to the soil, enabling a new healthy beginning for plants and animals. Fires also play an important role in the reproduction of some plants.
Do we know for sure that this change in the ozone isn't just as much nature's way of dealing with the earth's atmosphere? Not all, of course, but many forest fires are begun with a strike of lightening that creates heated embers when it strikes a tree. God created lightening and it must, therefore, be a part of His design for the enduring earth. What if God also created the atmosphere so that it might 'cleanse' itself from time to time to continue the life of a healthy earth?
Admittedly we should be responsible as far as polluting our atmosphere, but what if the ozone depletion is God's way of having prepared the earth for all this pollution that He must have obviously known would be forthcoming? After all, if God knows the end from the beginning, then He has known, since proclaiming the first "Let there be...", that man was going to create factories and vehicles that were going to spew toxins into the atmosphere. What if He planned for that?
Just my thoughts. But, I'm assured, by the Scriptures, that the end of this earth as we know it isn't going to be by man-made global warming. It's going to come at its appointed time according to the prophetic words of God. Peter forewarns us that this present earth is, and has always been according to God's word, reserved for a fiery death. My money is with Peter being the one who is right about the destruction of the earth.
Here's a video showing how the ice melt has been affected at the north pole:
Yet I've been going to Ft. Lauderdale beach now for about 60 years and it's still pretty much where it's always been as far as the shoreline. Despite the dire predictions that low level areas will be flooded, that seems to only be the case if the entirety of the ice on the earth melts. This video shows that about half of the northern ice has melted from what it was 60 years ago. According o NASA, over the last 40 years, we have gone from just over 7 million sq km of ice, to just over 4 million sq km of ice. So, we stand close to the point where half of the earth's ice sheet is gone. Where are all the flooded cities and towns along the coast? Even Venice, a city that actually sits in the middle of the sea still has it's water line about where its always been. Although they did recently have a temporary flood that was worse than it's been, the water level rise was only temporary and Venice has, for centuries, withstood such temporary flooding.
So, my question is simply that if we've already seen half of the earth's ice sheets melt, why aren't we seeing at least half of the cities and towns that are supposed to flood...flooded? I think it worth considering that the majority of the northern hemisphere's ice is floating ice, as the video claims. Floating ice doesn't really raise the surrounding water level. Just as the ice in your glass of soda, as it melts, doesn't raise the level of the liquid in your glass. Floating ice is in equilibrium with the water displacement of the ice below the water line, being the same as the total volume of the frozen water, when it melts. So that means that most of the northern hemisphere's ice can melt without changing sea levels much and that's exactly what we seem to be seeing.
Now, global warming may certainly mean that a degree or two average temperature change will mean that we won't have quite as much water frozen into ice each season as we've long seen and as the video shows. But, the northern and southern hemispheres would have to heat up a lot more than one or two degrees for the entirety of the ice on planet earth to just no longer exist or renew itself.
So I'm inclined to believe that just as God's word says, His promise made after the great flood, that the earth will endure just as it was first created to endure in supporting the life of man. That the changes in ice sheet are likely more cyclical in nature and meant to work as they are by the wise and majestic God who created all things. That we aren't going to destroy the earth with global warming. The earth is reserved for the destruction that God's word tells us is coming. There just don't seem to be a lot of 'facts' supporting the 'fear' that man now has that he's destroying the earth.
My 2¢ worth.
God bless,
In Christ, ted
